I had a conversation with Gregg Allman once. It wasn’t an interview, just an interaction. We were backstage at a friend of mine’s show. Gregg was thinking about producing an album for my friend — that never happened, though somewhere …

Someone asked me to write a song for Gregg Allman. So I did. It’s called “When the Pale Man Comes to Town.” Here’s the lyric: Warm brown bourbon in a tumbler On a slow dim Georgia night You’ve got Otis …